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2009
Whose working lives fell in 2009. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in 2009, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Leonardo DiCaprio3 decades - 2
Penélope Cruz3 decades - 3
Robbie Williams2 decades - 4
Christian Bale2 decades - 5
Joaquin Phoenix2 decades - 6
Amy Adams1 decades - 7
Eva Mendes0 decades - 8
Victoria Beckham2 decades - 9
Brittany Murphy0 decades - 10
Alanis Morissette3 decades - 11
Olivia Colman0 decades - 12
Elizabeth Banksnot measured- - 13
Hilary Swank2 decades - 14
Hrithik Roshan0 decades - 15
Mahershala Ali0 decades - 16
Sarah Paulson0 decades - 17
Alessandro Del Piero3 decades - 18
Alyson Hannigan0 decades - 19
Jenna Jameson0 decades - 20
Chloë Sevigny0 decades - 21
Kajol2 decades - 22
Ryan Phillippe0 decades - 23
Giovanni Ribisi0 decades - 24
Bear Grylls1 decades - 25
James Blunt1 decades
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.